Nantucket Harbor Range Lights
The Nantucket Harbor Range Lights are range lights that were built in 1908 to guide vessels through the narrow channel to Nantucket Harbor. They replaced an older arrangement involving the Nantucket Beacon and the Brant Point Light, which became unusable when the latter was replaced with a new tower.
 The Nantucket Harbor Range Lights | |
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| Location | Brant Point, Nantucket, Massachusetts |
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| Coordinates | 41°17′21.4″N 70°5′30.9″W[1] |
| Year first lit | 1908 (current tower) |
| Construction | Wood |
| Tower shape | Pyramidal Skeleton Tower |
| Markings / pattern | KRW  |
| Tower height | 46 feet (14 m) |
| Focal height | 51 feet (16 m) |
| Original lens | Higher intensity beam to seaward. |
| Characteristic | Fixed White |
| Fog signal | none |
| USCG number | 1-15165[2][3][4] |
 Old Brant Point Light is to the right U.S. Coast Guard photo | |
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| Location | Brant Point, Nantucket, Massachusetts |
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| Coordinates | 41°17′23.6″N 70°5′32″W[1] |
| Year first lit | 1908 (current tower) |
| Construction | Wood |
| Tower shape | Pyramidal Skeleton Tower |
| Markings / pattern | KRW |
| Tower height | 30 feet (9.1 m) |
| Focal height | 35 feet (11 m) |
| Original lens | Higher intensity beam to seaward. |
| Characteristic | Q W |
| Fog signal | none |
| USCG number | 1-15160[2][3][4] |
They display red and white vertical striped daymarks, type KRW, one of the twelve combinations used by the Coast Guard.
It is not known why the official USCG name of the front light, Nantucket Reef Range Front Light[2] includes the word "reef".
References
- The coordinates shown are the official coordinates from the cited Light List and are shown to the precision given there.
- Light List, Volume I, Atlantic Coast, St. Croix River, Maine to Shrewsbury River, New Jersey (PDF). Light List. United States Coast Guard. 2009. p. 135.
- "Historic Light Station Information and Photography: Massachusetts". United States Coast Guard Historian's Office. 2009-09-14. Archived from the original on 2017-05-01.
- Rowlett, Russ (2009-09-14). "Lighthouses of the United States: Southeast Massachusetts". The Lighthouse Directory. University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
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